jul

@jul@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to set this up recently but failed. I wish there was a up to date noob friendly guide for this. IIRC some containers, mongodb was one of them, didn’t go healthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Point taken, guess I remembered it wrong. But if you take a look at the arch wiki, they say that your mentioned client is actually not official.

  This article is mainly about the semi-official, proprietary Spotify for Linux client, which is developed by Spotify’s engineers in their spare time and not actively supported by Spotify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No not at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not arguing against his personal opinions, I’m arguing against his conclusion that tidal is not worth it (for everyone,because that is how it is worded).

  How is it of your concern how I spend my time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking in the context of streaming services here…

  Maybe you’re right with the Linux client part, but I don’t know any other streaming service that does provide one? At least Spotify and Apple Music don’t. Does it make them also not worth it? I would disagree.

  I never said tidal is the best app to support artists. In that regard there is a better option, just give them your money for free. I meant as a streaming service, quality wise and in terms of paying artists, there are no better options.

  What I didn’t like about your OP was the fact that you laid your personal opinions out and then concluded that tidal is not worth it. Doesn’t make me a shill when I answer with counterpoints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. For me, none of any recommendation algorithm worked decently well for me. I find new bands via following other bands (on Instagram, sadly), look at what they listen to, what bands they hang/tour/do concerts with or by asking other punks or by checking other communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean? I’m interested in his opinion and he wrote it like it was an absolute fact. Poor way to start a discussion imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  honestly it’s not really good

  *for you it isn’t

  no offline mode on desktop

  why would you need it? it’s supported on phones, just listen via phone?

  no official Linux client

  They are open sourcing their SDK though

  an incomplete catalog

  *for you. for me there isn’t

  It’s not worth it, even if they are the least bad for paying artists

  Again, for you. I rather support artists than some questionable monopolistic corporation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing they are migrating to FLAC! Also, while MQA is objectively worse, subjectively it’s pretty much equal to objectively better options. At least for us humans :) I found this double-blind test of MQA critic Archimago and they couldn’t find a statistically significant difference between MQA and PCM :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mainly listen to punk and it’s extremely hard to find bands that are not on Tidal. When I migrated my playlists to Tidal from Spotify, there was only 1 Band which didn’t exist on Tidal. But because it was only 1 song that was part of one of my playlists, I simply didn’t care. I don’t even remember which one it was.

  Can’t speak for Jazz though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He is! And I think he returned to Spotify as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tidal is the most popular option for audiophiles. What I also like about it is the fact that they pay artists much more fairly than other platforms. According to this, they payout $0.013 per stream on average (which means $1 per 77 streams). Because I listen to a lot of unknown artists it is important to me to be on a platform where I can support those artists much more directly.

  AFAIK Spotify only pays the overall most listened to artists like Taylor Swift etc. I canceled my Spotify subscription when Neil Young quit Spotify.